Agustino

The only conclusion to be taken from your statement above is that you did assume the non-existence of God, otherwise your question is stupid. In which...

So that's why, actually struggling and trying to understand so that you can ask good questions is important. If you just come with a destructive attit...

Then tell me - what does "God doesn't exist" mean? And it's not a failure to answer a question. It's wisdom. You don't go around answering stupid ques...

To give an example of this. A true falsehood is if you believe that your brother had sex with your wife (for example) and you rush and kill him, even ...

There are two different issues at play here. Short analogy before I answer: Plato talked about a "true falsehood". A true falsehood is something that ...

Yes, until the bodily resurrection of the dead.

I have not found evidence that unicorns exist, but there might be horses with horns somewhere in the Universe, how am I supposed to know there aren't?...

Is that a fact, or your opinion?

Who told you eternal spirits don't need bodies to exist? As far as I'm aware, Christianity talks of a BODILY resurrection of the dead, so, by all mean...

Affirming with your conviction that there is no evidence (which is actually a negative) is much more likely to be a delusion than not. You can say tha...

You have no clue what "God exists" or "God doesn't exist" means, so don't try to talk in languages that you don't understand. Go back to the experienc...

Okay. Thanks for that admission. It was a simple yes or no question, you could have answered it sooner and avoided all this dragged conversation. I'm ...

I see you're not very cultured. It's a conditional statement. If X is true, then Y. Do you know the truth conditions of a conditional statement? Obvio...

Most of it is good - my favorite was "On prognostications". It was short, to the point, and impartial. It would actually make a good topic for a threa...

>:O >:O >:O

And yet, Wittgenstein was most likely a believer.

What do you obtain by meditating? That - whatsoever you call it - is what I call getting closer to God.

Some of them are good, but some of them are so boring :-d ... I often get lost in his ruminations. No wonder it took you so long to plough through eve...

That's not obvious actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidbauer_incident http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/ludwig-wittgensteins-short-strange-br...

I think some cryptos are already doing this. There's lots of variation among them. The interesting thing is in trying to predict the big winners. I th...

Yeah the market-based transaction fee was thought out to be there even when mining stops actually producing new bitcoins, so that the miners still do ...

I would join the convo in one of those physical vs. non-physical threads that have been going on for a few weeks, but they look so heavy such that if ...

I very much agree.

The ones with a proven track record, obviously. Yes, I think this is about right. There are differences between religions, but there certainly is a sh...

Nope, not begging the question at all. I expressed something in Christian discourse, you want me to translate to atheist? It's just a question of tran...

Really? >:O doesn't sound like what you were quoting above.

This makes no reference to God. Clearly the delusion applies to actual human persons.

If eternal hell exists and if you are someone who is likely to be in hell in the afterlife, would hell be something to be afraid of? Yes or no?

No, not unquestioningly. It would be most productive if you answer my questions before anything else though. Please try to concentrate, it will facili...

Good, so you don't mean delusions in a medical context, therefore the list of symptoms used to diagnose the psychiatric condition of delusions that yo...

>:O - yes, quoting the dictionary certainly does make my point very well. You don't understand what ANY of those synonyms mean in the context of diagn...

No you haven't. You said I suffer of delusions. What does that mean? Do you mean the medical condition known as delusions? Yes or no?

I asked you for a yes or no answer. Are you incapable of following directions? I want a yes or no answer to the following question:

Yes, that's the problem. You never made that distinction, but you gave me a list used to diagnose a medical condition. Is your claim that I suffer of ...

Here's the symptoms of depression: Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood Feelings of hopelessness, or pessimism Irritability Feelings of guilt, wor...

Most people who have brain cancer don't experience other symptoms prior to diagnosis. No, you listed many, and failed to understand all of them. I don...

Yeah this is a case in point. You have no clue what "inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility" means. That mea...

No, you listed to me a bunch of symptoms and shown ZERO understanding of how medicine actually works or what those words mean. Headaches are the prima...

I think you really do have problems in understanding the meaning of what you read. When you have a headache, do you think you have brain cancer? >:O

When I read this, and then this: I know that you don't know what you're talking about - meaning that you don't understand the fundamentals at all. The...

I believe it's actually a very relevant question. What you mean by useful is very important. Many things are not useful in the sense that they don't h...

What does useful mean?

Of course it now remains for you to show that they were delusional.

What's the benefit? You compile them into books you then sell? :P

Man apo, you really are writing books on here... >:O You ought to get an award for longest posts.

I don't know - again, I've seen people take your attitude, and reach their goals. How they do that remains a mystery to me. I haven't found that to be...

No, because then you can't reach your goals man :(

I also think we form these "techniques" based on our goals and what we're practically trying to get done. So if you have different goals, I'd expect y...

Hmmm, maybe, but you can get quite efficient at controlling those things. It just requires that you take a step by step approach to things, much like ...

Hmmmm - so are you suggesting that I am like a villain who swallows his own soul out of fear of it? :P :-O